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Interesting that Bolt has been ready to pounce on anything that suggests the ‘Alcopop Tax’ isn’t working, but maybe I missed it, but I haven’t seen him post this:
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/190_06_160309/chi11362_fm.html
Which suggests otherwise.
Chris, I posted a sensibly-worded message at 7.15 this morning, asking why AB hadn’t yet posted a link to the new findings- maybe the results weren’t to his liking.
It hasn’t appeared in the Forum thread as yet, and it’s not likely it will. No doubt ‘technical issues’ will be cited to explain what otherwise is the usual Boltmoderator sensorship. News is fine so long as it’s good news…..
ps censorship, I meant. : )
the other person who needs to read that research is senator fielding, who it was reported during week that he may withdraw his support for alcopops tax on the basis of some spirits industry ‘research’ he’d seen. I wonder if it has occurred to detractors of the tax measure that the alcohol industry probably wouldn’t be making so much noise about the tax if business in RTDs was booming, would it?
I thought this morning that Bolt might have been getting the point this morning:
Andrew Bolt
Tuesday, March 03, 2009 at 12:01am
Speak up here. No Islam arguments today.
It was short lived. While there is no doubt the terrorist attack in Pakistan today should be universally condemned, does that condemnation need to extend to thinly veiled references to David Hicks?
One further note: Which Australian, hailed as a martyr by the Left, trained with Pakistani terrorists?
Cheap. If Hicks thought he was entitled to retire from the public life of political pawn, having served an overwhelmingly harsh sentence for a crime that didn’t exist, it would appear that Mr Bolt has ‘news’ for him.
Stupid first line. I shouldn’t write when tired.
I think it only fair to add that while the response of the rabble on Blair’s post on the same topic, he personally refrained from any tawdry political point scoring. Golf clap from me.